Yet somehow being "forced" to pay for carpet in a car instead of choosing linoleum, or internal solid doors in a house instead of cardboard, or any other number of parts to things that are useful to many but potentially not to *you* (and which provide profit to companies you don't care about), isn't a concern. But sure, get out the pitchforks because you want a company to spend extra money for you to somehow get a product cheaper. Sorry, but that's not how it works. That's not how any of it works!
Well that explains why I've not seen my P2 turning on Battery Saver (I'd configured 25% both initially and after the Google screwup). Like others it had been switched on at 99% and I thought I'd done it somehow - random touches or something. Could they not think of maybe popping up a notification on the affected device? They seem to be happy to pop up 230987 others for useless crap, I don't see how a "Hey, Battery Saver has been turned off by Google due to a system fault, click to change your settings" wouldn't have been reasonable (actually I do, that would be admitting fault without backlash and prodding, which is impossible for any company nowadays it seems).
On a 15" laptop the first indication she is there appears at 1 second into the video. Impact is at 6 seconds.
Not sure which video you're watching. I see the first signs of the shoes at somewhere in the 2s range - and what I thought was a flash at 1s doesn't appear to be her. Then the impact is within the 4s range. I timed with a stopwatch and got between 0.9 and 1.7 seconds - admittedly imperfect, but a long way from the claimed 5 seconds. Yes, dark camera vs human eye, distracted, etc. But I'm trying to concentrate on what I can measure and see.
If other commenters are accurate and it's 10m (30ft) between lane markings it appears to be about 45-50ft of roadway between detection and impact. At 35-38mph (55-60 km/h) that 15m is covered in 1 sec - so those two different estimates line up (approximately).
Good luck reacting and resolving that in the available time and distance. It's not easy even if you're expecting it.
Not quite true. It's possible to maintain an "Untrusted Certificates" list - Windows does this already - and simply decide that you don't like site A so their certificate goes on the banned list. Since the Chrome installer is often run as admin, it could add certs to the "Untrusted Certificates" store for the local computer, which would also break the site for Edge and any applications relying on the Windows certificate store. While I'm sure it would quickly be noticed, it'd still be disruptive.
Yes, but the tracker still goes back to their domains. Whether it's JavaScript posting data, or a transparent GIF with tracking data in the query parameters doesn't much matter.
Slashdot could have a tracking object for... IDK maybe Reddit. That object will be retrieved from, or post to, a reddit-owned service. That same tracking item might be on Indiegogo, or Tumblr, or Imgur, or SilentPCReview, or... or... Once placed, your browser acts like a browser, retrieves the items (including setting cookies if demanded) and will then provide the cookies back to the tracker next time. None of this is using Slashdot services other than the initial delivery.
Blocking that domain stops it from working. You have to get all of them, but once it's done it will actually work, until the next time they rotate domains...
Maybe next time do a ten second Google search before you rant. You'll look better informed (and not foolish). Because, you see, They'repart of the HTML5 spec and almost everycurrentbrowser or platform supports them. But hey - boo Microsoft etc.
Here in the pseudo-3rd world (AU) network connections are still very much hit and miss. I have multiple customers with large environments who can't get better than 2-4Mbps at reasonable (i.e. less than the cost of a car each month) pricing for many remote sites.
The fact is the country is massive, and while 98%(?) of the population is on the coasts and reasonably well covered for data services, there are still many places with poor or no coverage (outback, mining pits, etc) and no sane way to deliver it - no-one wants to pay $2500 a month for a basic calls-only-and-time-charged mobile phone plan to cover "outback" locations.
If the developer creates the application, and publishes it on a website; tell me how this is fundamentally different from that same app being found via Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, #MLPSearch etc? Now if MS were to try to monetise it, hell yeah bring out the scorched earth policy. But otherwise... it's just in an index. Your rights are not being trampled upon, nor are you being persecuted.
But the bigger issue here is that maybe a unified bar is better. Most browsers have adopted this UI, and from a usability point of view it does seem to be better. URL detection is pretty reliable, it saves space, it makes it easier to find stuff because the search results include your browsing history and URL entry history without sending any of that information to a 3rd party... It's what most people want.
I'm not sure all of that is true. In my experience (alert, alert, anecdote ahead!), URL detection is hopelessly bad, by default sending LAN IP addresses and hostnames to your favourite search engine or even going to an Internet site with the same 2nd level domain name as an internal server unless you preface it with http:/// first. In UI terms, the consolidation hardly saves space, since the URL bar just ends up taking the same space as the search box would have taken anyway; and if you think the browser isn't sending your entries "accidentally or otherwise" to 3rd parties, I suggest you read the Firefox or Chrome "EULAs" with a more cynical viewpoint. Consider for example the integration of Pocket to Firefox and the attempts to force uptake, or Chrome's "log in to Google and we'll sync all your tabs all the time" feature.
I won't deny it seems to be what most people want, but then I'd argue most don't really know what they should want anyway.
Every time I see people agitating for only voice control, I wonder if they have ever tried it in anything other than perfect conditions.
Hey guys stop talking so I can change the temperature.
Sorry guys, stop talking again I want to change the radio station.
Oh, sorry, everyone stop again so $passenger can change the seat settings.
"Hey $car, what's our speed" is so much more... useful than glancing at a dial or digital readout. Speaking at the car is so much better and faster than twisting a volume knob.
Can't even listen to loud music, because you won't be able to tell the car to turn it down.
And there's no way you would have to repeat anything to the car and everyone has the same accent. Set temperature to 25. 25. TWENTY... FIVE... Ugh OK, 29. NO TWENTY FIVE ah fuck it I'll just roast.
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer. You are a consumer; you may be a user; some might unfairly say a freeloader. But suggesting you are a customer implies exchange of value. (Merriam Webster, for example, Customer (n): 1: one that purchases a commodity or service The customer used a credit card for the purchase).
It was better when fax machines used thermal paper on a roll - you'd print 2 - 4 black sheets (depending on the size of your own fax machine), tape them together into a long single black sheet and send to their fax; once the leading edge exits the fax, tape it to the trailing edge.
Now you have an infinite black fax that not only ties up their fax machine, it consumes all their paper so they lose other faxes.
Bonus points for working out a way to autodial with the loop fax after ten minutes disconnected.
Really? Because in the last five years I must have created or posted content (as described) on, I would guess, more than three hundred websites. Of those I probably remember... 10? 15? at most. I certainly don't remember all the "unique usernames" I've used. Do you know every place you've posted a Disqus comment? Where your facebook comments ended up? What if you don't have a facecrap account - but someone with your name does? You think they're going to be able to tell the difference? Or even care they're wrong?
All prior passport numbers? I don't know. How do I find the number on a passport that expired 20 years ago and which was inadvertently destroyed ten years ago?
I don't remember every single address I've lived at (sure, the ones I own, or I was on a lease, or lived at as a child - generally fine). Time periods? No chance. Nearest YEAR at best. If I were a frequent traveller, that info would be just as foggy. Did I travel to Bali in March or May? NFI. And the list goes on.
Why should a person of interest be able to lie, omit, hide support for groups of interest or friends who support groups of interest to the USA?
Why should the other 99.999% be effectively forced to lie (either directly or by omission) because some bureaucrat somewhere in the US has a hardon for trawling through personal data yet with arguably ZERO chance of unearthing anything useful. Do you really think that a terrywrist ISN'T GOING TO LIE?!
Except that the electronic "sent item" is also retained by the sender - a carbon copy of a paper letter, retained in a file, is a direct analogue of the message sent electronically and stored in "sent". So if I create a paper letter, which I photocopy, or scan and store electronically, or I write on paper and duplicate with carbon paper, and I retain the copy while sending the original; surely my estate includes those copies, and it is up to the executor or beneficiary to read, dispose or otherwise?
OK you are close to your job now. But your partner has had to move 40 minutes further away from theirs. How do they get to work and home again? But you'll be OK because you're the only person in the world, right?
Yes it is. But adding 1000sq feet to the home area may just be a typo in the thousands place. So might 3000sq feet more (numeric keypad). Oops, too bad so sad (or is it... #SorryNotSorry now?)
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If your measure for quality is the amount spent to design it and the number of customers, you must love Windows 10.
Yet somehow being "forced" to pay for carpet in a car instead of choosing linoleum, or internal solid doors in a house instead of cardboard, or any other number of parts to things that are useful to many but potentially not to *you* (and which provide profit to companies you don't care about), isn't a concern. But sure, get out the pitchforks because you want a company to spend extra money for you to somehow get a product cheaper. Sorry, but that's not how it works. That's not how any of it works!
Well that explains why I've not seen my P2 turning on Battery Saver (I'd configured 25% both initially and after the Google screwup). Like others it had been switched on at 99% and I thought I'd done it somehow - random touches or something. Could they not think of maybe popping up a notification on the affected device? They seem to be happy to pop up 230987 others for useless crap, I don't see how a "Hey, Battery Saver has been turned off by Google due to a system fault, click to change your settings" wouldn't have been reasonable (actually I do, that would be admitting fault without backlash and prodding, which is impossible for any company nowadays it seems).
On a 15" laptop the first indication she is there appears at 1 second into the video. Impact is at 6 seconds.
Not sure which video you're watching. I see the first signs of the shoes at somewhere in the 2s range - and what I thought was a flash at 1s doesn't appear to be her. Then the impact is within the 4s range. I timed with a stopwatch and got between 0.9 and 1.7 seconds - admittedly imperfect, but a long way from the claimed 5 seconds. Yes, dark camera vs human eye, distracted, etc. But I'm trying to concentrate on what I can measure and see.
If other commenters are accurate and it's 10m (30ft) between lane markings it appears to be about 45-50ft of roadway between detection and impact. At 35-38mph (55-60 km/h) that 15m is covered in 1 sec - so those two different estimates line up (approximately).
Good luck reacting and resolving that in the available time and distance. It's not easy even if you're expecting it.
is about giving way to pedestrians on the half of the crosswalk on the opposite side of the road, when they're walking towards your side.
You mean like goo.gl? Yep, you can have the largest ad company on earth track your shortened URLs too.
Not quite true. It's possible to maintain an "Untrusted Certificates" list - Windows does this already - and simply decide that you don't like site A so their certificate goes on the banned list. Since the Chrome installer is often run as admin, it could add certs to the "Untrusted Certificates" store for the local computer, which would also break the site for Edge and any applications relying on the Windows certificate store. While I'm sure it would quickly be noticed, it'd still be disruptive.
Yes, but the tracker still goes back to their domains. Whether it's JavaScript posting data, or a transparent GIF with tracking data in the query parameters doesn't much matter.
Slashdot could have a tracking object for ... IDK maybe Reddit. That object will be retrieved from, or post to, a reddit-owned service. That same tracking item might be on Indiegogo, or Tumblr, or Imgur, or SilentPCReview, or ... or ... Once placed, your browser acts like a browser, retrieves the items (including setting cookies if demanded) and will then provide the cookies back to the tracker next time. None of this is using Slashdot services other than the initial delivery.
Blocking that domain stops it from working. You have to get all of them, but once it's done it will actually work, until the next time they rotate domains...
Maybe next time do a ten second Google search before you rant. You'll look better informed (and not foolish). Because, you see, They're part of the HTML5 spec and almost every current browser or platform supports them. But hey - boo Microsoft etc.
Here in the pseudo-3rd world (AU) network connections are still very much hit and miss. I have multiple customers with large environments who can't get better than 2-4Mbps at reasonable (i.e. less than the cost of a car each month) pricing for many remote sites.
The fact is the country is massive, and while 98%(?) of the population is on the coasts and reasonably well covered for data services, there are still many places with poor or no coverage (outback, mining pits, etc) and no sane way to deliver it - no-one wants to pay $2500 a month for a basic calls-only-and-time-charged mobile phone plan to cover "outback" locations.
If the developer creates the application, and publishes it on a website; tell me how this is fundamentally different from that same app being found via Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, #MLPSearch etc? Now if MS were to try to monetise it, hell yeah bring out the scorched earth policy. But otherwise ... it's just in an index. Your rights are not being trampled upon, nor are you being persecuted.
Point 3 will no doubt be released at the same time as they announce they have expelled 76 Soviet diplomats.
Have A Nice Day. Often part of "YHBT. YHL. HAND."
But the bigger issue here is that maybe a unified bar is better. Most browsers have adopted this UI, and from a usability point of view it does seem to be better. URL detection is pretty reliable, it saves space, it makes it easier to find stuff because the search results include your browsing history and URL entry history without sending any of that information to a 3rd party... It's what most people want.
I'm not sure all of that is true. In my experience (alert, alert, anecdote ahead!), URL detection is hopelessly bad, by default sending LAN IP addresses and hostnames to your favourite search engine or even going to an Internet site with the same 2nd level domain name as an internal server unless you preface it with http:/// first. In UI terms, the consolidation hardly saves space, since the URL bar just ends up taking the same space as the search box would have taken anyway; and if you think the browser isn't sending your entries "accidentally or otherwise" to 3rd parties, I suggest you read the Firefox or Chrome "EULAs" with a more cynical viewpoint. Consider for example the integration of Pocket to Firefox and the attempts to force uptake, or Chrome's "log in to Google and we'll sync all your tabs all the time" feature.
I won't deny it seems to be what most people want, but then I'd argue most don't really know what they should want anyway.
Every time I see people agitating for only voice control, I wonder if they have ever tried it in anything other than perfect conditions.
Hey guys stop talking so I can change the temperature.
Sorry guys, stop talking again I want to change the radio station.
Oh, sorry, everyone stop again so $passenger can change the seat settings.
"Hey $car, what's our speed" is so much more ... useful than glancing at a dial or digital readout. Speaking at the car is so much better and faster than twisting a volume knob.
Can't even listen to loud music, because you won't be able to tell the car to turn it down.
And there's no way you would have to repeat anything to the car and everyone has the same accent. Set temperature to 25. 25. TWENTY ... FIVE ... Ugh OK, 29. NO TWENTY FIVE ah fuck it I'll just roast.
But in my Microsoft bubble, patches can never break anything because they're only ever tested together, never separately!
The fact they're never tested at all has no impact on the veracity of the prior statement...
Pfft, trees aren't worth worrying about. Now dropbears, on the other hand - those things are a bloody menace.
Sorry, but if you are not paying them in some way, you are not a customer. You are a consumer; you may be a user; some might unfairly say a freeloader. But suggesting you are a customer implies exchange of value. (Merriam Webster, for example, Customer (n): 1: one that purchases a commodity or service The customer used a credit card for the purchase).
Nor can a legitimate caller. Or your mother.
It was better when fax machines used thermal paper on a roll - you'd print 2 - 4 black sheets (depending on the size of your own fax machine), tape them together into a long single black sheet and send to their fax; once the leading edge exits the fax, tape it to the trailing edge.
Now you have an infinite black fax that not only ties up their fax machine, it consumes all their paper so they lose other faxes.
Bonus points for working out a way to autodial with the loop fax after ten minutes disconnected.
Really? Because in the last five years I must have created or posted content (as described) on, I would guess, more than three hundred websites. Of those I probably remember ... 10? 15? at most. I certainly don't remember all the "unique usernames" I've used. Do you know every place you've posted a Disqus comment? Where your facebook comments ended up? What if you don't have a facecrap account - but someone with your name does? You think they're going to be able to tell the difference? Or even care they're wrong?
All prior passport numbers? I don't know. How do I find the number on a passport that expired 20 years ago and which was inadvertently destroyed ten years ago?
I don't remember every single address I've lived at (sure, the ones I own, or I was on a lease, or lived at as a child - generally fine). Time periods? No chance. Nearest YEAR at best. If I were a frequent traveller, that info would be just as foggy. Did I travel to Bali in March or May? NFI. And the list goes on.
Why should the other 99.999% be effectively forced to lie (either directly or by omission) because some bureaucrat somewhere in the US has a hardon for trawling through personal data yet with arguably ZERO chance of unearthing anything useful. Do you really think that a terrywrist ISN'T GOING TO LIE?!
Except that the electronic "sent item" is also retained by the sender - a carbon copy of a paper letter, retained in a file, is a direct analogue of the message sent electronically and stored in "sent". So if I create a paper letter, which I photocopy, or scan and store electronically, or I write on paper and duplicate with carbon paper, and I retain the copy while sending the original; surely my estate includes those copies, and it is up to the executor or beneficiary to read, dispose or otherwise?
The 9-ball on my pool table would like to have a word with you...
OK you are close to your job now. But your partner has had to move 40 minutes further away from theirs. How do they get to work and home again? But you'll be OK because you're the only person in the world, right?
Yes it is. But adding 1000sq feet to the home area may just be a typo in the thousands place. So might 3000sq feet more (numeric keypad). Oops, too bad so sad (or is it ... #SorryNotSorry now?)